First Look: Rosemary’s Baby Prequel Apartment 7A

They did a knockout job casting Roman Castavet.

Weist doesn't look a think like Ruth Gordon but I imagine she channeled everything into her performance.

Dianne Wiest has never done me wrong, so I trust her. I doubt this movie can bear the oppressive legacy of the original, but I am curious.

Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby!

I always wanted to hear more about Mrs. Gardenia. I wonder if Terry met her before she died?

I’m glad Dianne Wiest is getting more work. I remember an article from a few years ago where she admitted having to move out of her apartment because she could no longer afford rent. She’s a solid actress and should be seen more.

Julia Garner is extremely hard to look at. She had the face of someone with Down’s.

Is this about the girl from the laundry room who looks like the actress?

Yes.

The one where they tell her she looks like the actress who was actually playing her? That was such an odd thing to include.

[quote]Julia Garner is extremely hard to look at. She had the face of someone with Down’s.

Great actress, though. Ever since "Ozark."

Seems like an interesting concept and a way to build on, without interfering with, the original story.

About as far-fetched as "Ratched."

The character was written to have sex appeal. Also, it implies in the article she's not a completely sympathetic character. I would have preferred somebody who resembled Angela Dorian or Anna Maria Alberghetti at least somewhat.

If she had been beautiful and alluring would it have lessened the impact of her being a victim in the role?

[quote]r6 Julia Garner is extremely hard to look at. She had the face of someone with Down’s.

She has a great face. Especially for an actress. It can be dressed up, or down.

And she was so good in OZARK.

I have never seen Garner be bad. A face you can’t look away from. And her characters have been all over the place, she’s by no means one note. She’s a keeper. And I’m glad she escaped that Madonna biopic trainwreck

"How do you make a follow-up to Rosemary's Baby?'

You don't. You just fucking don't.

Get your goddamn shit together, Hollywood, or else America won't be there to save you when Donald Trump puts you all in re-education camps and hands your studios over to Kevin Sorbo.

Fertility was a big part of the story and I hope it sill is. I was surprised when I saw Mia Farrow in person. She was one of the most beautiful people I had seen in a girl-next-door way. This was sometime back in the 90s. Very porcelain like and quite adorable. Still womanly. Definitely a look that men would have gone for.

Mia Farrow has a perfect, versatile actress face. She could look almost any way she wanted… either plain or fancy.

(In retrospect, she sometimes looks kind of like Gwyneth Paltrow.)

A funny thing to me is she campaigned hard for the role of Daisy in THE GREAT GATSBY, got the highly coveted part… but then when she got to shooting it she was pregnant and throwing up everywhere. Plus she hated her stuff wig.

So it went from dream role to nightmare.

^^ Hated her STIFF wig!!

Not “stuff wig”

I had to do a double take on OP's photo—I thought that was a young Charlotte Rampling at first.

I first noticed Julia Garner in "The Americans." Yes, good actor, but her appearance is quite unattractive to my eyes. That crinkly hair, especially, but also her down-turned mouth that's always got red lipstick for some reason..

R15/R16 It's nice to know there are people like that, when you hear so much about apathy and people who are afraid of getting involved.

sounds delightful

Will Jack Schlossberg reprise his granny's role?

[QUOTE] "How do you make a follow-up to Rosemary's Baby?'

It’s a prequel. Do you know what those are?

Your reply has a chalky undertaste, r24.

Trailer is out!

R29, thanks.

We already know how this story ends though

She sho is ugly.

I wish they could have convinced Ruth to come back and reprise her roll.

A prequel about the building and it's history would've been a better premise. Could've gone back to the turn of the century and the witchey business going on in that luxury building.

I hate how trailers now just show WAY too fucking much. Every key scene, every big moment. The audience is never trusted to be curious or “do work” in any way. It’s spoon-fed to them for maximum “clicks.” The trailer for “Apartment 7A” also looks cheap.

Look at how effective this trailer is for 2006’s “Little Children” for comparison.

There used to be a certain art to putting trailers together and it’s gone now.

R35 Yes, it did feel like they were showing us every keep point in the entire film.

Yeah! Where’s the prequel about the Trench Sisters!

*key point

Another bomb.

Just watch the original again.

Shades of a young Christy Turlington @ R20

1976! ABC Saturday Night Movie of the Week! Patty Duke! Ruth Gordon! Ray Milland! Tina Louise! Sam Maharis!

Desert locales! Midwestern Spanish restaurant architecture! Spooky buses! KISS-influenced satanic rock!

R42 Thank you. I’ll be watching this again instead. HIGHLY ENTERTAINING!

“What did the Times say?”

I actually pitched a TV idea titled "The Branford" which addressed the building's early 20th century history. It went nowhere.

Was Julia Garner in Dexter?

40% on Rotten Tomatoes out of 58 reviews is not good. I have Paramount+ and even I may skip this.

Anyone watching? It’s out yesterday.

Watched it tonight. Rosemary’s Baby is one of my all-time favorites so I was excited to check this out. It was okay - not god awful but nothing I’ll revisit much either. It felt very rushed. There was no build-up to the impregnation scene and the fact she was Bill Cosby-ed by her boss never becomes an issue. I was disappointed there was no laundry room scene with Rosemary but the way the story plays out in this Terry was already suspicious so gushing about the Castevets like she does in RB wouldn’t have made sense.

Garner does a good job and Wiest is always worth watching. Much more watchable than the Patty Duke TV sequel

I watched it last night and agree with R49. It would have been great to see a recreation of the laundry room scene to connect the two movies. TBH I could have done without the extended musical numbers. But it did dawn on me that all Broadway producers have sold their rotten evil souls to the devil. Unfortunately, they don't all look like that actor in the movie, most are trollish beyond belief.

As I said in one of the other 7A threads, Wiest is much too fat to play Minnie Castevet.

Why shouldn’t Minnie be fat? She’s not a Vegas showgirl.

#BigIsBeautiful!